Quotes About Motivation

Only by underrating yourself can you keep on improve

Only by underrating yourself will you find the will to improve

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

In particularly trying times, Crosby would look to a handful of motivational sayings and poems he had collected over the years. They helped him focus his goals. Some of them hung on his bedroom wall at the Lemieux house, given to him by family and close friends. He modelled himself after his favourite, from Paul "Bear" Bryant: It's not the will to win that matters, everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Your self-esteem is a double-edged sword. It all depends on the 'self' of self-esteem whether it'll pull you up from the nadir or push you down from the pinnacle.

Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.

Do you feel bad enough now to make some changes or would you rather wait until you feel even worse?

If you want to hire someone motivated to perform the job at hand, determine whether the job is mainly goal-oriented or is mainly about troubleshooting. Do you need someone who is excited about working toward goals, or someone who delights in solving crises?

If you want to maintain your motivation over the long term, visualize what you want in front of yourself, i.e. I see a video of me fitting into my favorite skinny jeans, and feel the attraction of that image, drawing you towards it.

She pushes you because she wants you to be the best." "The best at what? Matricide?

So, taking a page from the Alla Baranova-MacRyrie handbook of motivational techniques, Lock said, "Hey, I totally understand if you can't do this.

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!